In preparation for Sunday/Monday's visit to NH by John Edwards, the entire family helped the [Kerry/Edwards](http://blog.johnkerry.com/) campaign headquarters in Manchester make some signs. Tomorrow Wendy is attending a NH campaign meeting and help drive some national campaign staff and/or press around.

Last week I bought an old letter on [Ebay](http://www.ebay.com) from Capt John Bright of Cambridge, MA to his brother in 1848.

[Last year other strangers pointed me](http://nozell.com/blog/index.php?s=gideon+taylor&submit=Search) to an Ebay auction for a [Gideon Taylor/Sarah Burr 1857](http://www.nozell.com/genealogy/gideon-taylor-sarah-burr-family-bible/), I was alerted to the auction by some stranger who suggested that it may be related to my wife's BRIGHT line.

Seemed like a good deal at $15.

Here are some smaller versions of the scans I made tonight. Drop me some email if you want a copy of each of the 9M files.

The seller was nice enough to include a photo copy of some background info from "U.S. Naval Institute" by Carl C. Cutter (1961), pg 484 has a line from the "Queens of the Western Ocean", Center line, Ripley Center & Co, 73 South St., Mobile Agents est 1824. (In Boston? NYC?)

Year Vessel Tons Masters 1824 Bg. Susquehanna 207 J. Bright

The column with the "Bg." is untitled, but the other entries are "Sp.", "Sch.", and "Bk." Some type of ship type? (eg. Schooner)

I was downloading images off of the camera and found this picture of [Max](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Cleland) [Cleland](http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Max_Cleland)that my wife took at a [Kerry/Edwards](http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html)event last week in Manchester, NH.

Welcome to threetwoone.org - Graphical way to show relationships of many different things; how states are connected, christian bible development, Bush dynasty, wall street scandals, etc Tagged as: [graphics reference]

ipodder.org -- windows/mac app to automatically download mp3 files mentioned in RSS feeds. I'd like to see a linux version that downloads and burns to CD so I can pop it in the car's CD player.Tagged as: audioblog mp3

It asks for just today's bookmarks using the published api, parses the XML, generates nicely formatted HTML and creates a WordPress entry.

Here is the writeup from the code:- - -

This is yadd.php V1.0 by Marc Nozell (marc@nozell.com) based on Stephen Eyre's dailydelicious (http://www.dot-totally.co.uk/dailydelicious.txt)

See http://www.nozell.com/blog/ for the latest version of 'yet another daily delicious' (yadd.php)

USAGE:

1) Edit the section below. At the very least use your del.icio.us username and password ($del_user/$del_password)

2) Put there file somewhere on the server where you run WordPress.

3) Arrange for this page to be hit once a day, say 11:30ish your local time. del.icio.us seems to track UTC so depending on which timezone you live in, some bookmarks from your yesterday may show up. Consider using a simple cronjob that looks like this:

30 23 * * * $HOME/bin/yadd.sh

where yadd.sh looks like this:

#!/bin/bash curl http://www.yoursite.com/yadd.php

4) In the morning edit the entry if you wish. I've tried to generate pretty HTML so it will be simple to edit the entry.

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND

Anyone that hits the URL for this script will cause your current bookmarks to be dumped into WordPress. Clearly this is not desirable.

You have some options. The easiest is to keep this URL 'secret'. Name it something unusual and put it in a non-obvious place. Remember that if you display your web hit stats, the url will be exposed. A better solution to use .htaccess to limit access. If you do that remember to update the url wget uses to include the username/password, something like this: curl http://someuser:somepassword@www.yoursite.com/yadd.php

A few weeks ago I was at work reading a blog on Microsoft's developer's blog site about some lessons learned on a particular development project. Boring project management stuff really. The second comment was along the lines of:

"Good stuff. I've just finished defending my masters paper on this same topic. Click here to read it http://www.some-reasonable-looking-site/lastmeasure"

Bam! Tons of popups, moving, resizing windows, really disturbing porn/violent images all over the place, but the best part was the sound -- at the loudest volume -- 'HEY EVERYBODY! I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORN!' repeated over and over and over.

Fortunately I had headphones on at the time and running Firefox on Linux, so killing it was simple.

Sadly, it appears the MS blogger has removed the comment from his site and I've X'ed out the offending site. However if you are clever with google, you'll be able to find where it has moved to.

Here is the email I passed on to some (now former) friends....

Subject: Hey everybuddy!

Here is a cool new site. Make sure you have the volume turned wayup -- it may be hard to hear.

http://XXX.XX/lastmeasure/

It works best in a work environment.

NOT!

Best viewed NOT at work and with the headphones on.

I got the link from one of the commentsof the article "21 Rules of Thumb â€œ How Microsoft develops its Software" http://blogs.msdn.com/David_Gristwood/archive/2004/06/24/164849.aspx

This is a much more obnoxious version of the previous URL --http://XXX.XXXXXXX.XXX/~lysol/lm.swf

Friday, September 10, 2004

This evening Griffin and I made some stop-motion videos using some clay figures he made and my HP camera.

[Take a look](http://www.nozell.com/blog/data/griffin-video-02.avi)

This is how we did it:

* Set the HP 318 Camera to the lowest resolution, turn off flash* Screw in the little tripod I got years ago for one of the first webcams* Have plenty of light* Take about 90+ photos* dump onto my Linux/Debian laptop (gphoto2 --get-all-files)* Convert to an animated gif ( convert -delay 10 IM*.jpg out.gif) with a 10/100 second delay. Realize it is a huge 20M file* Convert to AVI ( mencoder "mf://IM*.jpg" -mf type=jpg:fps=7 -ovc lavc -o output.avi) which gives a much smaller (~1M) file.

* Install the perl module Flickr::Upload using either CPAN or download from http://search.cpan.org/~cpb/* Grab this script* put it in your ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts directory* edit the following lines for your own use: